1384 – Unmerging old baselayout after clean install fails

Bug 1384 - Unmerging old baselayout after clean install fails

Summary: Unmerging old baselayout after clean install fails

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 395

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-03-28 22:01 UTC by Jason Draugluin Ritchie
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Jason Draugluin Ritchie 2002-03-28 22:01:32 UTC

I installed clean from the build-x86-r17.iso and once everything was up and 
running smoothly, I attempted to unmerge baselayout 1.6.x using:

emerge baselayout --unmerge --safe

It went about unmerging 1.6.x but stopped at "!found /dev/pts/.keep" with a few 
lines of errors.  I did "touch /dev/pts/.keep" and tried again.  I got to "!
found /dev/shm/.keep" and it stopped again.  This time I 
couldn't "touch /dev/shm/.keep" so I mounted a tmpfs system there and touched.  
The unmerge completed and I cleaned up my two hacks.  Per install docs, I do 
not have /dev/pts support in my kernel.

I do not have access to the detailed errors here at work.  I will reproduce the 
problem later today or tomorrow and post them here.  My secondary reason for 
posting this bug while it is on my mind is so I will remember.

Comment 1 Jason Draugluin Ritchie 2002-03-28 22:13:12 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 395 ***